[Mapserver-users] Appending a shapefile

[Jon Shorie]

It depends on what language you are using.  If you are working with the perl 
mapscript, you can use mysql, postgres, informix, oracle, firebird, or 
interbase (there are probably others).  You access these through the dbi and 
dbd interface.  

After searching google, I found the following site that may be helpful:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/msql/chapter/ch10.html

It gives a pretty good overview of the dbi/dbd interface.

On Monday 07 April 2003 10:55, Alessandro Galasso wrote:
> Hi Jon.
> Where can i find info on how to use a database insteed of .dbf files ?
> Which DBMS are supported?
>
> Ragards,
> ---
> Alessandro Galasso
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon Shorie" <jshorie at medinaco.org>
> To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 3:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] Appending a shapefile
>
> > You may want to store the data in Mysql or another low end database
> > rather than .dbf files.  This would permit you to not have to rebuild the
> > dbf
>
> every
>
> > time you add a point.  You would just issue an sql insert command to add
>
> the
>
> > point to the database.
>
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